From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 19054
Date: 2003-02-23
>Yes, they look similar, but they aren't. From theAll cases of initial Albanian ç- in Pokorny's IEW are derived either
>historin phonology of Albanian we know that labiovelar
>kw- reflects to Albania s-, so Albanian c^, according
>to my view is the some kind of affricatization in the
>biggining of the word. I find out that latin loan
>c^moj < smoj < lat. (as)timare testifeis that s- at
>the biggining is turned to c^. For this reason I think
>that old river names Tyamos derived in Albanian C^am
>and horonim C^ameria. But, at the end of the word, the
>-c^ is derived form -tsh: vjetsh > vjec^, motsh >
>moc^. So, we could conclude that c^- in this case is
>dervied from oldest s-.